mar23

P.J. would be the worst thing that the wise folks on the berm could ever do. the college game has changed since P.J. last coached there. When he was at Seton Hall he had Mark Bryant and a host of other second round NBA draft picks on his team that stayed in school for a minimum of three years each.

now,a coach is lucky if he can get any first or second rounders to stay in school for over a year. with the one and done rule,no one will be able to lure top recruits to Oregon because they know that wherever they sign on to play at,they will only be there for one year,and who wants to spend eight months in Eugene when they could be in Memphis (see Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans) or UCLA where the weather is better. and while we are on UCLA look at how the one and done rule just decimated that team that just last year went back to the NCAA tournament.

now which brings us back to P.J. himself. the man has terrible people skills. he still has not changed one bit from his failed stints at Giolden State,Seattle,and OKC. he honestly thinks that people actually pay money to come and watch HIM call plays from the sidelines. and the most important thing to remember about the Latrell Sprewell incident is that no one from the team,none of the assistant coaches,or anyone from the front office came running to P.J's defense after that incident occurred. I am not condoning what Spre did,but NOBODY in that organization supported P.J. and it is no secret why.

I am going with Mark Few to get the job,he is from Creswell and he is close to Pat Kilkenny. this is his job,and his only.

sorry to tell you TLewis but Seattle and whoever it was that had the third pick was NOT going to select Oden. the reason being is that he failed both of the team physicals that Seattle and the team that had the third pick in the draft that year.

they said and I quote " his knees looked terrible when they gave him an MRI exam,and they knew that he had back and hip problems also. and the Sonic's team doctor stated that all of those injuries were related to the knee injury. he had been favoring the knee for so long that he had thrown his entire back and hips out of alignment.

Oden was injured BEFORE the blazers drafted him, and for that alone Pritchard and whoever else signed on to drafting him should feel the burning of the Romulan Phasers.